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Beowulf: A Prose Translation Penguin Classics (Paperback)

by David Wright (Author)
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  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Demco Media (Aug 1957)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0606023003
  • ISBN-13: 978-0606023009
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.3 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,378,773 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good prose translation, 23 Dec 2007
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This translation makes for easy reading. I did find it a confusing story and had to find out about it before reading it but this has nothing to do with the translation. I read this alongside another translation as I found this version to be lacking a good analysis.

If you want to read this as a piece of literature, i.e. a poem, then this version is brilliant but if you want to know about the times the author lived in then you may need to go elsewhere as I don't feel this covers it in layman's terms.

I haven't gone into the plot of the poem as hopefully from what I hope will be a great film, people are aware of the poem and its contents, therefore I felt it more appropriate to focus on style and readability.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A terrific prose translation, 18 May 1999
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This review is from: Beowulf: A Prose Translation (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
David Wright has provided the reader with an excellent prose translation of the oldest known epic of any Teutonic people and the first important poem in Old English. It deals primarily with two central events in the life of the Geatish hero Beowulf. The first is concerned with his victory over the monster Grendel who had been attacking Heorot, the mead hall of the Danish king Hrothgar (John Gardner published a novel, "Grendel", in 1971, that takes Grendel's side in the story). The next day, Beowulf slays Grendel's mother who is attempting to try and avenge her son. In the second major event, taking place fifty years later, Beowulf fights a dragon; both are mortally wounded. Hygelac, King of the Gelts, is identified with the historical Chochilaicus, who raided the lower Rhine about 512 A. D. A young Beowulf was in that raid. When Chochilaicus was killed in a battle with the Franks about 520, he was succeeded by his son Heardred. This poem shows the importance, in a warrior society, of the relationship between the warrior and his lord. The poem, even though it contains threads of Christian commentary, is also concerned with the pagen view of immortality: the memory of a warrior's heroic acts. Also: that fate can be swayed by courage. "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good."
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